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What advantages do perverse sheaves provide over D-modules? (or vice versa)

My question is as in the title: What advantages do perverse sheaves provide over D-modules? (or vice versa) As a specific example: could something like the modular generalized Springer correspondence ...
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Lie Algebra representations outside of generalized central characters

For a simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, we can view its category of representations as fibered over $\operatorname{Spec}Z(\mathfrak{g})$ (a representation will lie over a point if the center's action ...
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What are twisted Verma modules? Basic properties?

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a simple Lie algebra over $\mathbf{C}$, $\lambda$ be a weight in the nonnegative Weyl chamber and $w_1,w_2\in W$. Then the twisted Verma modules are defined e.g. in Andersen and ...
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Concrete computation of pullback of the $D$-module $\mathbb{C}[t,t^{-1}]$

I have some problems in calculating some example explicitly. Consider $$ \{0\} \overset{i}{\rightarrow} \mathbb{C} \overset{j}{\leftarrow} \mathbb{C}^*.$$ Then $Rj_+\mathbb{C}[t,t^{-1}] = \mathbb{C}[t,...
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Two identities involving Ext functors in the context of D-modules

I have several questions regarding proposition 2.3 in "Cherednik and Hecke algebras of varieties with a finite group action", by Pavel Etingof. Let $X$ be a complex affine algebraic variety ...
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Iterating specialization of sheaves?

This is a question about the operation of taking the specialization of sheaves along a subspace. I'll recall the settings in which I've encountered a notion of specialization of sheaves: The real, ...
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The geometric "hands-on" vs. algebraic approach to nearby cycles

Feel free to skip to the question below; the following is just context and discussion: An interesting, but seemingly less used result in the theory of nearby cycles of constructible sheaves is (...
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Are there six functors for twisted D modules?

Is there a notion of holonomic D module which admits the six functor formalism in the world of twisted D modules? Recall that twisted D modules on $X$ are well-defined for any $T$ torsor $\tilde{X}\...
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Computing $\mathcal D$-module direct image along group action map

Say everything is over $\mathbb C$, and I have an action $act: N \times X \to X$ of an affine algebraic group $N$ on a smooth variety, say with finitely many orbits. I'm trying to compute the $\...
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Is $\mathbb{P}^1$ the only smooth projective curve with a locally split tangent lie algebroid?

Let $C$ be a smooth projective curve over an algebraically closed field $k$. The tangent lie algeborid $\mathcal{T}_C$ of $C$ is just sheaf of vector fields on $C$ equipped with the usual lie ...
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What kind of algebraic object is $\mathcal{D}_X$? (algebra of diifferential operators). What's special about modules over it?

Let $R$ be a regular ring over a field of char 0. Let $X=Spec R$ and $D=\mathcal{D}_X$ the algebra of differential operators over it. The overall vague question is what kind of algebraic object is $...
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What's the relation of the Hecke algebra of a pair and the flag variety?

Let $G$ be a real semisimple Lie group and $K$ a maximal compact subgroup. Let $\mathfrak{g}$ and $\mathfrak{k}$ be the complexified Lie algebra of $G$ and $K$, respectively. Then the Hecke algebra ...
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What kind of algebra has geometric realization as in "Geometric Methods in Representation Theory of Hecke Algebras and Quantum Groups"

In Chriss and Ginzburg's book "Representation Theory and Complex Geometry" as well as the paper "Geometric Methods in Representation Theory of Hecke Algebras and Quantum Groups", the group algebra $\...
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Beilinson-Bernstein and Koszul duality

For geometric representation theorists down here. Consider the Beilinson-Bernstein theorem: Functor of global sections establishes the correspondence between twisted D-modules with fixed ...